I hope you’ve had a brilliant May! Leave a comment and let me know your hopes for the future.
The Prompt
Write A Story of Hope
You can use this prompt to write about your hopes for your (writing) future or you can write a fictional story that revolves around hope.
The fun thing about playing with hope is that it raises the stakes so very high, and allows for the possibility of some real dark nights of the soul. What does it do to your character when they think all hope is lost? How do they act?
And what does it do to your reader when you whiplash their emotions all over the place and grant your character’s wish, after all?
(Can you tell I’m hoping for happy endings? You should feel free to disappoint me if you’re more of the ‘everybody dies a meaningless death at the end’ type)
Leave a comment letting me know how your month has gone, what you’ve achieved and what you hope that means for the future.
It has been an absolute privilege to spend this time with you creative souls. I hope you’ll stick around for the rest of the year and most of all,
The Welsh Government plants a tree for every new child in Wales. Write a story involving one of the trees or forests.
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The Prompt
Since 2008 the Welsh Government has pledged to plant a tree for every new child born or adopted in Wales. Write a story involving one of the trees or forests.
You could take this down a supernatural/fantasy root (pun intended).
What if the child’s life was linked in some way to the tree, perhaps their life is even linked to that of the tree. What would a parent do to protect the tree and ensure it flourished as it grew?
You could write from the point of view of the tree over a long period of time. What does it witness? How does the tree itself change/mature?
You could write in the genre of climate change. How does this scheme affect the planet? This could either be from a positive or negative perspective.
Or, from a conflict point of view, think about who might not be in favour of this scheme. This could be a developer who wanted to build on the cheap land that the Government is now using for a forest. Or someone in a community who sees farmland being bought up for tree planting and their way of life disappearing. What might someone do to sabotage the forest- arson, breaking the the saplings, etc?
Remember you don’t have to use a traditional style of storytelling. You could write your story as the minutes of a meeting, a newspaper report, a personal letter.
You might not have time to write a long story with all the background info filled in so jump straight into the action. You can always add backstory when it comes to revising.
Katie Bennett-Davies
Katie Bennett-Davies lives in Wales with her husband and cat, Didi. Living with disabilities has allowed her to see the world from a different perspective. She enjoys pottering in the garden and drinking too much coffee.
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The possibilities are as numerous as … the hairs on a human head.
The Prompt
Rapunzel’s saved her from an enchanted prison. Sampson’s gave him unparalleled strength. Medusa’s was nearly as deadly as her eyes, and in Pope’s mock-epic, Belinda’s drives the Baron to distraction.
Tell a story about a “hairy” situation.
Imagine a comedy of errors between a novice hairdresser and their demanding client.
A mystery in which a lock provides the only clue … or a portal to another time on another planet on which everyone is bald.
How might things change if it were animal hair or peach fuzz or electrified?
If sprouted from a museum statue that suddenly came to life?
If you gave Medusa’s hair to Belinda or turned Sampson and the Baron into roommates?
Maybe plop one or more of them into a completely different genre or setting?
You may even have a real-life hair horror story–Now give it to a character who is your complete opposite.
The possibilities are as numerous as … the hairs on a human head.
Michele E. Reisinger
Michele is a writer and educator living in Bucks County, PA, with her family and never enough books. Her short fiction has appeared in Across the Margin, Stories That Need to be Told, Sunspot Literary Journal, Dreamers Creative Writing, and others. Find her online at mereisinger.com.
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A wrecking ball is parked in front of a 100-year old building. You are an architect, the wrecking ball operator, or a homeless person? What are your best memories and deepest regrets?
Brenda Rech
Brenda is happily married with two beautiful daughters, three dogs, two cats and a bird named Amy Farrah Fowler. Her flower gardens are forever at the beginner’s stages as she would rather hike with her husband and dogs or explore her writing. Her favorite breakfast is crispy bacon and strawberry jam on white toast. She is currently working on her first novel and has a monthly newsletter ‘Thru the Window’
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Write a story in which two characters talk different languages
The Prompt
Communication can be one of the greatest challenges of the human race with roughly 7000 spoken languages in the world. Have you ever been in a country where you did not speak the language but needed to find a location or service? Have you ever helped a non-native speaker of the language in your country purchase an item or find the right train? Perhaps the communication resulted in gestures, pointing at an item or drawing pictures to convey a message. Write a story where two characters speak a different language and must communicate for the most part without words. It can be in first person from the point of view of one of the characters. If it helps, draw from your own personal experience(s).
Carey Marie Shannon
Carey Shannon loves to use her writing to make humorous connections between items that may appear completely unrelated. A feat that is easy for a serious Elvis fan and frequent blood donor. Carey Shannon loves to write about humorous connections between items and subjects in life that may appear to be completely unrelated. A feat that is easy for an Elvis super fan and frequent blood donor. She has been a member of the Story A Day community since 2020 and now hopes to provide some inspiration quirkiness to other writers.
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